Sonntag, 13. August 2017

North Korea and war

A Murderous History of Korea

Bruce Cumings

More than four
decades ago I went to lunch with a diplomatic historian who, like me,
was going through Korea-related documents at the National Archives in
Washington. He happened to remark that he sometimes wondered whether the
Korean Demilitarised Zone might be ground zero for the end of the
world. This April, Kim In-ryong, a North Korean diplomat at the UN,
warned of ‘a dangerous situation in which a thermonuclear war may break
out at any moment’. A few days later, President Trump told Reuters that
‘we could end up having a major, major conflict with North Korea.’
American atmospheric scientists have shown that even a relatively
contained nuclear war would throw up enough soot and debris to threaten
the global population: